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Briefing

Background:
From the first days of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has increasingly

impacted our daily lives. All aspects of how we live, work, socialise,
communicate, share and experience the world around us has changed.

Science may in time address the harshest impacts. However the pandemic
has exposed vulnerabilities and challenges for the way we live, some of
which may continue for some time, or alter individual experience long into

the future. Individuals have had to reactively respond and adapt to their
rapidly changing landscape as they attempted to navigate new realities. In

a Covid-19 endemic future, Design can be a proactive medium which
supports how individuals, not only to function and survive, but engage and
flourish in life, work and play, through engaging provocative, emotional &

playful products.
Instruction:

1. Within micro-group of 4-5, collectively map the systems/ecosystems
people have been impacted by and have developed adapted strategies to
Covid-related lock-down; within their professional and/or professional

lives.
a. Early learners,

b. Home-carers,
c. People of physical/social disadvantage,
d. People who’ve experienced loss,

e. Older Adults.
2. Individually, engage a research subject (user), from within your

family/friendship network. Engaging an ethics-based approach to data
collection:
• Engage and narrate subject’s lived experience; as impacted by

Covid-related lockdown.
• Engage subject in a co-design session; to identify a specific area suitable

for Design-led intervention.
• Sketch and explore provocative, emotional & playful solutions; which
address subject need.

• Propose solution.

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